Body Art Quotes: top 72 famous quotes about Body Art

Body Art Quotes & Sayings

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Because we cannot scrub our inner body we need to learn a few skills to help cleanse our tissues, organs, and mind. This is the art of Ayurveda. — Sebastian Pole

The end of the republic is to enervate and to weaken all other bodies so as to increase its own body. — Niccolo Machiavelli

The whole body of the arts and sciences composes one vast machinery for the irritation and development of the human intellect. — Thomas De Quincey

Lovemaking is the consolation for living in the body, just as art is the consolation for living in the world. — Laura Argiri

The problem with doing physically ambitious art is that to view it, you still have to be in your physical body. — Molly Crabapple

Mind power is my art ... ... so bring the canvas of your mind closer and I will create a masterpiece. — Stephen Richards

Admire the art of the archer: he never touches the body and breaks the heart. — Anonymous

Chymia, or Alchemy and Spagyrism, is the art of resolving compound bodies into their principles and of combining these again. — Georg Ernst Stahl

I started connecting things to my body during my childhood. I approached the computer as a mediating element, as a form of visual art. — Steve Mann

Your body is a piece of fucking art, but that doesn't mean you can use it to get what you want. — Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

With Michelangelo anatomical science is transformed into music. With him the human body is architectonic matter for the construction of dreams. — Umberto Boccioni

The dance is the mother of the arts, The dance breaks down the distinction of body & soul. — Curt Sachs

To me, the body says what words cannot. I believe that dance was the first art. — Martha Graham

All the arts serving human desires and needs are derived from the breath that Godsent into the human body. — Hildegard Of Bingen

A map is the dead body of where you've been. A map is the unborn baby of where you're going. There are no maps. Maps are pictures of what isn't. — Russell Hoban

All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul. — John Ruskin

Therefore tremble, O man, at any power thou hast, except thou usest it for God. Art thou strong in body; who hath thy strength? God, or thy lusts? — William Gurnall

I'm trying to create flesh architecture. I aim to get a sculptural feel for groups of bodies, as well as create performance art. — Spencer Tunick

Relaxing is hard to do at times. Worrying and agitation are even harder on the body and mind. — Art Hochberg

All martial arts is simply an honest expression of one's body - with a lot of deception in between. — Bruce Lee

Of all the various peoples of this world, none leaves the human body in the simple state of nature in which it was born. — Jacqueline Delange

Humans consist of body, mind and imagination. Our bodies are faulty, our minds untrustworthy, but our imagination has made us remarkable. — John Masefield

A great thing happening now in art is that artists are using the figure, the body, clothing, life. — Issey Miyake

Each body has its art... — Gwendolyn Brooks

A house, having been willfully purchased and furnished, tells us more than a body, and its description is a foremost resource of the art of fiction. — John Updike

My child has to be an artist,
because conceiving her will be the best art
my body has ever accommodated. — Nomthandazo Tsembeni

The great art of life is how to turn the surplus life of the soul into life for the body. — Henry David Thoreau

Language is our body and our breath, our world and our thought, our perception and even out unconscious. — Philippe Sollers

Art is the body's pronunciation of the soul. — Michael Gungor

Students of any art, including Karate-do must never forget the cultivation of the mind and the body. — Gichin Funakoshi

A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not. — Leonardo Da Vinci

We should learn as a people to pay good money for the food that feeds the soul and mind, same as we do for the food that feeds the body. — Nana Awere Damoah

In art as in life, form and subject, body and soul, are one. — Edward Abbey

Art has definitely influenced how I think of design, both as individual items and as a body of work. — Cynthia Rowley

A metamorphosis ... The shining butterfly of the soul from the pupa of the body. Larva, pupa, imago. An image of art. — A.S. Byatt

When you're talking about fighting, as it is, with no rules, well then, baby you'd better train every part of your body! — Bruce Lee

The body is an art to give pleasure to the soul — Marina G. Roussou

The human body is the best work of art. — Jess C. Scott

My feet are not a good part of my body. They definitely have suffered for my art. They're, like, all bunions and blisters. — Lindy Booth

The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body. — Martha Graham

Prior to Schneemann, the female body in art was mute and functioned almost exclusively as a mirror of masculine desire. — Jan Avgikos

The human body is an instrument for the production of art in the life of the human soul. — Alfred North Whitehead

I create beautiful art, so I can look back on the life my body fell short of in such a way that it brings me peace. — Nikki Rowe

Shigemori's body of work is a compelling manifesto for continuous cultural renewal. — Christian Tschumi

My body is my art, and it's also the tool that I use to make money. — Sasha Grey

Cleanse your body and soul, removing malice, selfishness and desire. — Morihei Ueshiba

Everything on my body has a meaning. I don't do art just because. It does look cool but it also has a meaning. — Carmelo Anthony

Logic is the art of thinking well: the mind, like the body, requires to be trained before it can use its powers in the most advantageous way. — Henry Home, Lord Kames

Gurl,if you were a flower I will plant you in heart,watering you with my blood and cover you with my body. — Knight Mayor

Fashioning the body, defining the self. — Unknown

Beauty is the product of the dominant ideology. (Thus when ideology changes, the ideal body follows.) We can see that in the history of art. — Orlan

The art of an actress is sublimated sexuality. But off the stage the fire must be able to reconvert the steam into body. — Karl Kraus

The saying 'the arts aid the body' is for samurai of other regions. For samurai of the Nabeshima clan the arts bring ruin to the body. — Yamamoto Tsunetomo

The body is living art. Your movement through time and space is art. A painter has brushes. You have your body. — Anna Halprin

Move quickly. Sound, calm mind. Be light in body. Have a clever mind. Master the basics. — Gogen Yamaguchi

I want to be a work of art, at least in my soul, since I can't be one in my body. — Fernando Pessoa

A tattoo is art and not a possession as love is beauty and intangible. A tattoo is a promise, not an accessory. — Danielle Valenilla

The body is to be compared, not to a physical object, but rather to a work of art. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body. — Barbara Hepworth

The grist for my mill is the human body and the art of healing. — Richard Selzer

I worship at the temple of your body and without you, I'd have no art ... — John Geddes

Our bodies are simply our shells, the package for the spirit and the soul. — Eric Samuel Timm

The masks of her life would become the mythical body of her art. — Edward Butscher

My body is a gradual work of art — Rick Genest

...tango is art, not sex. Yes, it is art made with your body and someone else's. But not sex. — Kapka Kassabova

[The sensate body possesses] an art of interrogating the sensible according to its own wishes, an inspired exegesis — Maurice Merleau Ponty

When I start doing a body of work I feel vulnerable, fearful. If I stopped trusting the process, I would stop doing art. — Wanda Koop

Feed the body food and drink, it will survive today. Feed the soul art and music, it will live forever. — Julie Andrews

Her body is one big refrigerator, where Art is well stored. — Elfriede Jelinek

Yoga is the art work of awareness on the canvas of body, mind, and soul. — Amit Ray

Any action done with beauty and purity, and in complete harmony of body, mind and soul, is Art. — B.K.S. Iyengar

Re-programming your mind, body & spirit is like planting a garden, if the soil isn't right nothing will grow. — Nikki Rowe